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Celestino

#3,859 in 2025Boys' name

English equivalent of Celestine

Celestino has been given to 2,638 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #3,859 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Celestino, 2025

1 in 118,000

Celestino over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Celestino: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Celestine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Celestino means

Celestino is a English equivalent of Celestine.

Origin, language, and formation

Celestino is used in Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Celestine.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Celestino is pronounced /se.lesˈt͡ʃĩ.nu/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,638 boys were recorded with the name Celestino between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 46 in 1922; its best national rank was #942 in 1888.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,282 in 2020 to #3,859 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,779 in 2015 to #3,859 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Celestino?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 61,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,859
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Celestino sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Celestino. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Celestinos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Celestino was born before 1966 — so the typical Celestino is around 59 today.

Median birth year
1966
About 59 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
12.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,687
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 12.3% of all recorded uses (325).

Is Celestino rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,239
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,423
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,920
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.87×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.9%
Peak was 1922 (46)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#942
1888

Where Celestino is used

Across 1910–2025, Celestino was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 35,933 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 14,286
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 20,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Celestino has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Celestino around the world

Where Celestino ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1928–1982
    #2,597
    in 1982
  • South Australia
    1957–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Celestino

People whose public names include Celestino, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Celestino in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Celestino. Linked forms have their own page here.

CelestinCelestíCelestynCelestýnCelesztinCaelestinus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Celestino by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,859
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,423
Best rank ever
#942
1888
Peak year
1922
46 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,638
Count in 2025
28

Names similar to Celestino

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

JuventinoFlorentinoAntoninoMaximinoMarcelinoFaustinoCatarinoValentinoDelfinoAugustinoCelsoPaulinoVictorinoConstantinoAgostinoGabinoJustinoAvelinoMarinoCelestineBernardinoCelerinoSabinoGavino

Names with a curve like Celestino

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Celestino, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

FlorencioModestoEusebioAnselmoCiprianoAnastacioFlorentinoDelfinoPorfirioRosalioDonatoCandelario

Sibling names for Celestino

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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